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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kerr, Jeremy T.
• Pindar, Alana
• Galpern, Paul
• Packer, Laurence
• Potts, Simon G.
• Roberts, Stuart M.
• Rasmont, Pierre
• Schweiger, Oliver
• Colla, Sheila R.
• Richardson, Leif L.
• Wagner, David L.
• Gall, Lawrence F.
• Sikes, Derek S.
• Pantoja, Alberto

Titel

Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2015-07, Vol.349 (6244), p.177-180

Ort / Verlag

Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For many species, geographical ranges are expanding toward the poles in response to climate change, while remaining stable along range edges nearest the equator. Using long-term observations across Europe and North America over 110 years, we tested for climate change–related range shifts in bumblebee species across the full extents of their latitudinal and thermal limits and movements along elevation gradients. We found cross-continentally consistent trends in failures to track warming through time at species' northern range limits, range losses from southern range limits, and shifts to higher elevations among southern species. These effects are independent of changing land uses or pesticide applications and underscore the need to test for climate impacts at both leading and trailing latitudinal and thermal limits for species.